State police believe the wounded intruder ran through some nearby woods to flee the crime scene in North Beaver Township, Lawrence County. He later turned up at a hospital and was flown to UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh for surgery.

The incident happened around 2 a.m. at a home on Hillsville Road in a very quiet part of town, close to the border of Bessemer Borough.

STARTING TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF CONGESTION THERE, BUT NOTHING TOO MAJOR THIS MORNING. HERE ARE YOUR DRIVE TIMES. BACK TO YOU. BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. A VIOLENT HOPE INVASION. BUT THE MAN INSIDE FOUGHT BACK AGAINST HIS ATTACKERS. BOB HAZEN THE ONLY LIVE REPORTER ON THE SCENE. Reporter: WE FOUND OUT A SHORT TIME AGO THAT POLICE BELIEVE ONE OF THE SUSPECTS IN THIS HOME INVASION WAS SHOT BUT STILL ABLE TO RUN THROUGH THESE WOODS BEHIND ME FROM THE HOUSE, POLE UP TO THE SPOT WHERE WE'RE STANDING RIGHT NOW. AND IS STILL ON THE LOOSE. THIS ATTACK HAPPENED CLOSE TO 2:00 THIS MORNING INSIDE THE HOUSE ON HILLSVILLE ROAD IN IN NORTH BEAVER CLOSE TO THE BESSEMER BOROUGH LINE. A STATE POLICE VAN HAS BEEN PARKED OUTSIDE ALL MORNING. INVESTIGATORS HAVE BEEN SEARCHING THE PROPERTY. WE'RE TOLD AT LEAST TWO MEN FORCED THEIR WAY INTO THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, A MAN WHO LIVES HERE WAS PISTOL WHIPPED. HE WAS ABLE TO FIGHT BACK, THOUGH. AUTHORITIES SAY HE FIRED AT THE SUSPECTS AND DID HIT ONE OF THEM. THE ATTACKERS RAN AWAY DISAPPEARED, STILL HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND. AUTHORITIES DO SAY THE MAN WHO WAS INSIDE THE HOUSE WHO WAS PISTOL WHIPPED IS EXPECTED TO BE ALREADY AND HE'S COOPERATING WITH AUTHORITIES RIGHT NOW AS THEY SEARCH FOR THESE TWO